Can the ancients tell jokes? The jokes told by the ancients are inferior to those told by modern people.

In some people's eyes, the ancients always seem to be associated with words such as "stuck in the mud" and "stuck in a rut", as if they were working very seriously underground every day, discussing the proceedings very seriously and bargaining very seriously ... In fact, the ancients are also human beings, with their own ideas and jokes, but the history books handed down always seem serious and serious, which makes us understand that they are all serious. In fact, the ancients also told jokes, and they wrote a book specially for these jokes. Let's see what this old joke book looks like today.

Among the cold jokes told by the ancients, there is a well-known joke collection "Little Guang Lin Collection", which was compiled by the "game master" in Qing Dynasty. This game master is not a certain person, just like the "Badashanren" is actually just a person, but the game master is a large group of people, all of whom are literati in the Qing Dynasty. Laughter in the Woods can be regarded as a collection of jokes in a strict sense, with humor and mature expression. The book is divided into twelve parts, and naturally there are twelve themes, but these classifications are not absolute, only when collecting information.

So, since it was collected, where did it come from? Is it like Li Shizhen, who went out to look for them one by one? In fact, the joke is just a laugh after all. Although it contains acne, authenticity is not the purpose of jokes, which is different from Compendium of Materia Medica. According to Zhou Zuoren's textual research, the contents of this book are selected from Feng Menglong's Laughing Room, Li Zhuowu's Laughing Down and Shi Tianji's Laughing Well. After all, it is a collection of jokes, so the words are humorous and sharp, and an ugly phenomenon is caught and expressed with comedy effect.

In the book, the jokes about the world are the most, reaching 70% to 80%, because they cover all aspects of ordinary people's lives and reflect all kinds of lives, with the largest natural space. Then, let's see how they tell some jokes that satirize bad manners in the ancient way.

There is an article "Borrowing the Brain", which is about a Suzhou native who likes to kiss up to the rich very much. He often tells his rich master that I won't frown if you let me die. One day, the master was ill, and the doctor said that the disease had penetrated into the internal organs, and the medicine could no longer play its role unless it could fill the brains of the living. Who can find this? No matter who sends his brain out, the owner can't find it. He suddenly remembered the man who often said he would die for himself, so he called him in. As soon as the man listened to his master, he said, "That's really impossible. We Suzhou people are all brainless! "

This joke was probably a bit dark in ancient times. I don't know where the author is from. If Suzhou people see it, they may look at him.

Bad words. There was an old man who had no son but only three daughters. He lives with his three sons-in-law The old man built a new house and spent thousands of dollars. One day, the eldest son-in-law came back from drinking outside and knocked at the door, but no one answered. He couldn't help cursing why the prison door was closed so early. The old man was very angry. He went to his second son-in-law and said, I spent a lot of money to build this house. It's not that easy, but he said such unlucky things, which is extremely hateful. The second son-in-law said that if it was sold, the house would be worth 500 gold at most. Naturally, the old man is more angry. He found his third son-in-law and told him about it. Who knows, the third son-in-law said that 500 gold is already very good. If you can sell wine, otherwise the house will be burned down by fire, not to mention 500 gold, which is worthless.

Three sons-in-law organized a group to kill the old father-in-law. If this joke is true, I don't know whether the old father-in-law fainted on the spot or drove all these son-in-law out of the house, leaving none.

A lie. There is a person who is always used to telling lies. As his servant, he will lie for him every time. Once this man said that a well in his house was blown to the next house because of the strong wind last night. No one believed this, but his servant said it was true because the well was near the neighbor's fence. The wind was so strong yesterday that the fence was blown to the well, just like blowing the well to their home.

Another day, the host said that a man shot down a wild goose with a bowl of noodle soup on its head from the sky. People naturally don't believe it. His servant continued to lie. That day, his master was eating noodle soup in the yard. Suddenly, a wild goose fell from the sky and its head just fell into the bowl. Isn't it like having noodle soup on your head?

When meeting such a servant, the master has to say that his life is good, but no matter how good his life is, he will be scolded by the official one day. Once, he told others that the cold family had a warm weather account, and the world was tightly covered without any gap. Well, it's hard for servants to keep lying, he said with a frown. This is really too much. How can I tell such a big lie? I can't go now.

I have to say that the cold jokes told by the ancients are more interesting than those told by modern people, and they also have a very strong irony, which also makes us see an ancient time that is different from the official history, more humorous and more interesting.